New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1887-12-31
TO GO ON STRIKE TO-DAY.
READING MEN CONFER AT NIGHT
RESOLVING TO OBEY THE CONVENTIONS |
O3DER.
LOCAL ASSEMBLIES MEET IN PHILADELPHIA AND
AGREE To QUIT WORK THIS MoRNING-A
DESPERATE STAND 70 BIZ MAIDS IN DE-
FENCE or ThEIR oRGANIZATioN-
WHY THE ORDER WAS NOT


WHY THE ORDER WAS NOT
oBEYED EARLIER.
PHILADELPHIA. Dee. 30.-A crisis in the strike
will be reached tomorrow morning If the declared
intentions of the nine local assemblies which are
made up of the eltire number cf Reading
Railroad employees III this city are lived up
to. An unusually large meeting of Local Assem-
bly, No. $500 held tonight, and tbere were
present besides representatives of the eight other
assemblies The meeting was enthusiastic and at
its conclusion about midnight it was stated that
No. r, $50 had resolved 10 abide by the action or
the Reading Convention aud refuse to 60 TO work
at o'clock Tomorrow morning. 1hc delegates
from the eight other assemblies. it is SAID, had
pledged heir locals To take similar action. Local
No. $500 is made up of freight stcvedores
engineers. conductors, brakemen and others on the
PhiiadcDha division of the main line and Is of
the largest assemblies the system. Local No.
1902 Is comro>cd of ght-handcrs at PoIt Rich
mond; 40. 6 $50 includes freicht-handlers at oths
stations in the city: Assembly NO. G,2sj comprises
the coal-handcrs at Port Richmond who have been
ont since ruc,day: aud Assemblies $50 10,l07
2.12G. ,, $50 and 2,176 made up from the other
deparmcn of the road.
II was also resolved at to-nigh's meeting to bring
suit for damages against the Reading Company for
the alleged witul de- aging of tclerams between
ercncc 10 the present troubles.
The Executive Committee of District Assembly
No. pa has issued the following:
To O,r Broucr Mcipbrrs of The hhighS Of LGbor dnd
Work mgr cn Dt "rncr"l:
We the snplsvos Of the Philadelphia and Reading
system strike. respectfully ask organized ah-r
and laboring people in gescrH refrain from seeking
employment the Philadelphia aua Reading Rallioai,
in Philadelphia other portion VI The liihdel-
phia and Reading system rs employees are batting
for tho fundamental principle Of organized labor
night arbitrnir all differences aud the prevention OF
yCtimIatOu without gsss cause
P0 TsvIrIr Dec 3O.-Although judging from sur
face indications in this neishborhood and through
out the county during the day, the order TO the
Reading Railroad men 10 strike has fallen Hat,
yet if reliance is bc placed upon the statements
and claims Of Chairman Lee. who returned to this
city from Philadelphia This morning, tomorrow
viii witness an uphcaval IN comparison with which
the original premature strike was a bagateHe.
Lee WAS seen by Miner Journal reporter to-
night and intcrrogatcd as to the situation and out
look He replied that general strike all along
the line t. morrow was now nc' table and certain
When asked why it did not begin to-day IN re-
spon,c To- the action Of the Reading Convention
he rcplird thu thi, evening was IA" hiHt ,oppoI-
tunitV afforded the various local assemblies 0I
Eiifying that action. -, ,
lie furl.r said that appeals for material aid naH
bccn sent ont 10 all knights - Labor assemblies
i'm thc United state, and that Az appeal Nou.d nr
made 10 General Master WormaH PowdcsE
10 lovy az assessment upon Tie whole b"dy oil
knights throughout the coun't